FFD: “Nightmare” or “I’m too young to die?”
Do you play on the hardest difficulty available, or are you happy to turn it down a few notches and just enjoy the experience?
Do you play on the hardest difficulty available, or are you happy to turn it down a few notches and just enjoy the experience?
What are the scareiest games you played, or scariest characters you've encountered in a game?
Hey folks! It’s time for our Friday debate – and today you can leave your console allegiances at the door. We’re here today to discuss the two multiplayer shooter heavyweights – Modern Warfare 2 and Battlefield Bad Company 2. Superficially, they’re quite similar games – Dramatic, explosive single player campaigns and frantic team-based multiplayer with experience and levelling-up systems. They’re …
When it comes to High-Definition gaming on consoles there are two options; Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s Playstation 3. Locally it seems that despite the one year head start, the average South African chooses the PS3 over the 360. Even more tellingly, through conversations with numerous distributors and retailers it’s come to light that locally more games are being sold …
I’ve said it before, and for good measure I’ll say it again: As it stands right now, Xbox Live is undeniably the better online gaming service. If there’s one single thing that Microsoft’s done right with regards to the platform, it’s making the entire system unified and intrinsic. Not forcing developers to to create their own online networks makes it …
Haha ha, you hapless disc-changing fools! Because of your poor choice of console you’re going to have to get up in the middle of your games to change discs, COMPLETELY RUINING whatever immersion you had in whatever game you were playing on your inferior Xbox. It was recently confirmed that the 360 id’s RAGE will ship on two discs – …
Here’s some incredibly surprising news; Yet another developer is bemoaning the Playstation 3’s stilted architecture and having a tough time getting their game to run well on Sony’s 3rd place, current-gen wonderbox. A broken record that PS3 fans must be getting pretty tired of hearing. With almost every 3rd party developer having similar concerns a full three years in to …
NPD, the American chart-tracking gurus have released last month’s sales data – and with it we can finally put an end to the very serious, and very real war between the two free-roaming super-charged action hero games. Having sold 227200 more copies on just one platform than its mortal enemy, Prototype has proven that it is indeed the better game, …
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A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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